[NTLK] Apple Newton at the Museum Of Failure

[robmoody at fundamental-learning.com]

Not to mention the iPad (Mini, anyone?) and the Apple Pencil…while I don’t dispute SJ’s drive and feel/insight on product design/quality, quite a few of his decisions were personal (although that can be said of anyone, true enough) and the Newton was one example…
Rob (UK…orig. OZ)

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> On 20 Jan 2024, at 21:17, Donna Momorella via NewtonTalk <newtontalk at newtontalk.net> wrote:
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> Any time I text from my Apple Watch, I see that the Newton DNA lives on today.
> 
> Donna
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Jan 20, 2024, at 4:07 PM, Gene beaird <bgbeaird at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> Indeed.  It only ‘failed’ because Apple was floundering at the time and Teh Steve didn’t like the thing, so had the project cancelled.  IMHO, with the 2001, it was _almost_ there, and would have probably been really good with an update with a faster CPU and a bit more memory.  
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>> But we have Macintoshes to sell and iPhones to develop, amiright?  :-)
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>> Regards,
>> 
>> Gene Beaird,
>> Pearland, Texas
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>>>> On Jan 20, 2024, at 2:00 PM, newtontalk-request at newtontalk.net wrote:
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:39:15 -0700
>>> From: Grant Hutchinson <splorp at mac.com>
>>> To: NewtonTalk List <newtontalk at newtontalk.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Apple Newton at the Museum Of Failure
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>>>>>> On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 9:47?AM Alexander Shendi wrote:
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>>>>>> Apple Newton at the Museum Of Failure:
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>>>>> On Jan 19, 2024, at 12:41 PM, Michael Sheflin <sheflinm at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> I saw this there a few months ago, but I'm pretty sure the display model
>>>> was a 120 or 130.  (I snapped a pic of the Minitel but not the Newton.)
>>>> But it wasn't an OMP.
>>> 
>>> Sigh.
>>> 
>>> It didn?t fail. It was deliberately killed.
>>> 
>>> If the Newton had truly ?failed?, we certainly would not be still talking about it decades later.
>>> 
>>> g.
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